Medieval History
Call for Participation - Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic
Manuscripts at Michigan
Colleagues,
The University of Michigan Library is pleased to invite your
participation in our ongoing CLIR-funded project, "Collaboration in
Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan," by way of our newly
launched project website:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/
The project website is at the center of an approach that provides
access to bibliographic records and digital surrogates for the
Islamic manuscripts; facilitates the gathering of informative and
insightful commentary from scholars on campus, across the country,
and around the world; and exposes in real time the dynamic
enrichment of bibliographic information as project staff, scholars,
and other contributors interact with the system. By involving the
widest possible scholarly community in the iterative enrichment of
manuscript descriptions, our project makes the best possible use of
an aggregate of expertise that is uniquely positioned to help us
overcome the challenges inherent in traditional manuscript
cataloguing.
The Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan
contains approximately 1,100 manuscript volumes mainly in Arabic,
Persian, and Turkish and dating from roughly the 8th to the 20th
century CE. A limited amount of descriptive information for the
manuscripts has already been gathered and converted to preliminary
records in our online library catalogue. Likewise, the manuscripts
are being digitized with their digital versions appearing in the
Hathi Trust Digital Library. The existing descriptive information is
currently being enhanced as the project cataloguer and staff
examine the manuscripts (both physically and in the digital
environment) and use a research approach to assemble as rich and
analytical a description as possible for each manuscript.
We invite you to join us in the examination and description of the
manuscripts and to submit the results of your analysis as comments
via our project website. Your contributions will be reviewed by the
project cataloguer and refashioned for incorporation into the
cataloguing records for the manuscripts you examine. Additionally,
your contribution will be recognized both on the site and in the
record for the manuscript that appears in our library catalogue.
We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site
and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this
project.
Further information on the project is available here:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-library/clir-islamic-manuscripts-project
You may browse records of all the Islamic manuscripts in our catalogue at:
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Search/Home?filter%5B%5D=location%3ASPEC%20ISLM&page=1&use_dismax=1
Please forward any questions, comments, and/or suggestions to project
staff at [email protected].
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Medieval History
Call for Participation - Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan
Call for Participation - Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic
Manuscripts at Michigan
Colleagues,
The University of Michigan Library is pleased to invite your
participation in our ongoing CLIR-funded project, "Collaboration in
Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan," by way of our newly
launched project website:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/
The project website is at the center of an approach that provides
access to bibliographic records and digital surrogates for the
Islamic manuscripts; facilitates the gathering of informative and
insightful commentary from scholars on campus, across the country,
and around the world; and exposes in real time the dynamic
enrichment of bibliographic information as project staff, scholars,
and other contributors interact with the system. By involving the
widest possible scholarly community in the iterative enrichment of
manuscript descriptions, our project makes the best possible use of
an aggregate of expertise that is uniquely positioned to help us
overcome the challenges inherent in traditional manuscript
cataloguing.
The Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan
contains approximately 1,100 manuscript volumes mainly in Arabic,
Persian, and Turkish and dating from roughly the 8th to the 20th
century CE. A limited amount of descriptive information for the
manuscripts has already been gathered and converted to preliminary
records in our online library catalogue. Likewise, the manuscripts
are being digitized with their digital versions appearing in the
Hathi Trust Digital Library. The existing descriptive information is
currently being enhanced as the project cataloguer and staff
examine the manuscripts (both physically and in the digital
environment) and use a research approach to assemble as rich and
analytical a description as possible for each manuscript.
We invite you to join us in the examination and description of the
manuscripts and to submit the results of your analysis as comments
via our project website. Your contributions will be reviewed by the
project cataloguer and refashioned for incorporation into the
cataloguing records for the manuscripts you examine. Additionally,
your contribution will be recognized both on the site and in the
record for the manuscript that appears in our library catalogue.
We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site
and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this
project.
Further information on the project is available here:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-library/clir-islamic-manuscripts-project
You may browse records of all the Islamic manuscripts in our catalogue at:
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Search/Home?filter%5B%5D=location%3ASPEC%20ISLM&page=1&use_dismax=1
Please forward any questions, comments, and/or suggestions to project
staff at [email protected].
- Parker Library On The Web
ELB writes: From 2005-9, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was involved in a project (in collaboration with Stanford University) to digitise their superb collection of medieval manuscripts. The resulting online resource is the 'Parker Library...
- British Library Digitises Greek Manuscripts
The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The website provides...
- Museum's Digitization Projects Offers Access To Medieval Manuscripts
An impressive project in digitizing manuscripts is proving that online resources can be created that will meet the needs of academic scholars and find an audience with the general public. The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, which is completing...
- The New Schoenberg Database Of Manuscripts
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of the new Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. Since early November, a new search interface has been available in beta version for testing. Thanks to feedback from users, we have...
- Catalogue Of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Hosted by UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Catalogue seeks to provide a technological solution to a simple and rather delightful "problem": the breathtaking increase in the number...